2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumwhy electing Hillary is more important than electing Obama in 08.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/26/why-electing-hillary-in-16-is-more-important-than-electing-obama-in-08.html?via=mobile&source=twitter"The most famous woman in the world would walk through the White House with no entourage, casually chatting up junior staffers along the way. She was by far the most prepared, impressive person at every Cabinet meeting. She worked harder and logged more miles than anyone in the administration, including the president. And shed spend large amounts of time and energy on things that offered no discernible benefit to her political futuresaving elephants from ivory poachers, listening to the plight of female coffee farmers in Timor-Leste, defending LGBT rights in places like Uganda.
Most of alland you hear this all the time from people whove worked for herHillary Clintonis uncommonly warm and thoughtful."
cantbeserious
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SleeplessinSoCal
(9,150 posts)Read the whole article.
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SleeplessinSoCal
(9,150 posts)It's very insightful.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)Will demand that their needs are met at the expense of the 99%.
themaguffin
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cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)Will demand that their needs are met at the expense of the 99%.
themaguffin
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themaguffin
(3,828 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,374 posts)"more important," even though I sincerely believe that she is not only the best prepared candidate of all in 2016, but also the one who will work the hardest for us all.
But for its symbolic value, her election is equally as important, IMO. At long, LONG last ...!
Kall
(615 posts)Most of alland you hear this all the time from people whove worked for herHillary Clinton is uncommonly warm and thoughtful. She surprises with birthday cakes. She calls when a grandparent passes away. She once rearranged her entire campaign schedule so a staffer could attend her daughters preschool graduation. Her husband charms by talking to you; Hillary does it by listening to younot in a head-nodding, politician way; in a real person way.
Well, there you go. She surprises with birthday cakes. Forget single-payer opposition and the TPP "gold standard". And apparently I've been imagining all the times she's listened while nodding her head in a politician way.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)To this feminist it will be an important step backward for women to have a woman president who is open to compromising on abortion and stepped on women and children to get where she is.
The possibility that we would elect a woman who makes cold blooded statements about the death of a brutal dictator, claims to be supportive of black citizens but supports the racist institution that is mislabeled "criminal justice" and the death penalty.
I know some hard core RWers who are very nice to me. But, they will vote for Donald Trump against my interests.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)Most Democrats support a third trimester abortion ban, with exceptions for the life and the health of the mother.
Almost all abortions take place in the first two trimesters, and the ones that don't almost always involve some type of health problem facing the mother or the fetus.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)She is accepting the RW narrative that women are inclined to casually and callously have abortions at any time during a pregnancy rather than accepting the premise that women should be trusted with their own bodies.
With "legal, safe, and rare" she bought into the narrative that there is something inherently wrong, sad, tragic with making that decision.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)I think both elections are hugely important. It is always important to keep Republicans out of the White House, and always destructive when they get in.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)With a dash of warmongering thrown in for good measure. Which of course is what we got with Obama, but Hillary is more of a hawk, so expect more drone strikes and violations.
I've had it with "establishment" bullshit.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,150 posts)There is no doubt about that. Eleanor was vilified. She came from privilege yet was torn apart by others who thought they earned that privilege. Eleanor and Hillary have big hearts and love people. Especially those most in need. Hillary I believe will have us smiling again. And some of those she will help underestimate her now.
Every day so far this year she has proven herself of being completely equipped for the job and to me the most compassionate. She's a fighter clearly.
Eleanor never stopped fighting and is one of the 20th century's greatest Americans. I think it's past time for the next great American woman.
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/why-hillary-dropped-eleanor-roosevelt-121444393196.html